At 08:22 AM 1/9/2004, Michael Berkowitz wrote:
>Shawn Gordon writes
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Shawn Gordon [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 7:56 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: OT: Back to space?
>
>
>My friend Dennis Powell is the one that wrote and broke this story, he
>actually told me about it back in September and the dates they had been
>considering for announcing it were the anniversary of Kittyhawk, the
>state
>of the union and the anniversary of the last shuttle disaster, but there
>was also consideration about the new Mars probes and how successful they
>were.  It has nothing to do with the election year.  Bush 41 also wanted
>to
>do this.  Personally I love the idea.  Think about it, Mars is the only
>planet in the solar system where we can actually land and walk around,
>and
>it happens to be the closest as well, to me that is just exciting as
>hell.
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>Actually Venus is almost twice as close (25.9 million miles) to Earth as
>Mars (48.9 million miles) is.  However nobody's gonna be walking arounds
>it's surface anytime soon.

Mars at it's closest is in the 30 million range

>Mike Berkowitz
>Guess? Inc.
>
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Regards,

Shawn Gordon
President
theKompany.com
www.thekompany.com
949-713-3276

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